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March 18, 2023

Science Fiction Stories L Christopher Hennessy

Broken Girl With Blonde Hair

NYC, 2236, and Harley Ambrose decided to take her home. Her name was Arabella and she was broken. Ambrose lived alone on floor two-twenty of a building project and he was aging but not considerably old. For over a week now he had passed Arabella sitting on…

March 18, 2023

Crime Stories Jason Smith

Did Annabelle Murder Her Family

Their mother had been unconscious for forty eight hours and they’d been told to expect the worst. James and Gregory talked, Annabelle preferred the silence her brothers found uncomfortable, they were strangers to her. “Is anyone hungry?” Asked James. “I could…

March 18, 2023

General Stories Emanuel Diaz

Aquamarine Of Sapphire Skin

"So, what's the catch?" asked Vassilis, the leader of the group. Glauco Ponti shrugged, holding up his basket of fish. "Just the usual suspects. Some sardines, a few octopuses, nothing too exciting." Dimitri smirked. "Come on, Glauco, don't hold out on us.…

March 18, 2023

Science Fiction Stories L Christopher Hennessy

A Man Named Damo Ura

They called themselves Mechanics and had discovered a planet long dead, its Sun extinguished now for thousands of years. From this planet they took samples of plants and animals which used to be there in abundance and decided to breathe life into them. At…

March 13, 2023

General Stories Devin Householder

The Best Of Intentions

Luli slid gently out of Alfie’s arms as she checked his nightstand clock [9:54pm]. The California new year was still two hours away. A nearly full moon lit the way over to the window of her boyfriend’s twelfth-floor Avalon Towers apartment, an empty Stanford…

March 13, 2023

Flash Fiction Lawrence Hartmann

Authentic

I want to be authentic. I want to be ME, as I was when I was a boy. No filters, no strategies for life-coping. I want to walk out in the sun everyday and feel that I am 100% ME. Towards this goal, a few months ago, I embarked on a reading adventure. I would…

March 13, 2023

General Stories Emanuel Diaz

Gravitational Meow

Calis Dafelis, a female laboratory animal science researcher, loved felines and was currently studying the behavior and abilities of her favorite suborder of animals in California. She was particularly interested in the myth that cats always fall on their…

March 06, 2023

Poetry Paweł Markiewicz

Arethusa And Alpheus

Introduction to the myth The myth has happened in darkness of forest, near the old druidic altar with the stone. It was foggy then, shrouded in last summer. Here a fawn was born at dawn and morn - no woe! Near the spring that belonged to the moony grove,…

March 06, 2023

Science Fiction Stories L Christopher Hennessy

Sora, My Future

“ That guy’s the angriest loneliest guy I know! “ George laughed. “ Says he’s in love! Every time I visit a cyberdoll I fall in love, too! “ Tokyo, 2360, and Ric Henry let them laugh. He drank his beer and didn’t care because he knew what was real and he had…

March 06, 2023

Poetry Emanuel Diaz

It Is Not My Fault

"It is not my fault, I swear. I was merely seeking knowledge and power, just like any other magician. When I found the Necronomicon, I thought I had struck gold. But the secrets I learned from that eldritch tome were far beyond anything I could have imagined.…

March 06, 2023

Crime Stories Peter Greenhall

Tortured & Taxed Part I

"Right, do you remember the fella you met the other day, the one from Brookbourne, by the Exhibition Centre?" JJ often had to emphasise every detail to Tommy two fists. He was never the sharpest tool box, but he never questioned anything that JJ asked him to…

March 06, 2023

Fantasy Stories Emanuel Diaz

A Not So Cute Mountain of Cuteness

In the mystical land of Japan, there lived a Ryūjin shinkō dragon by the name of Viryu. Viryu was an ashen-colored dragon with black spots, and she was a protector of nature. She had lived for centuries, watching over the land and its inhabitants, but she had…